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Sunday, April 01, 2007

IITH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT TO ACCEPT CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP!!!!

An aggrieved jurist obtained the secret plans of our Chief Judge to sell corporate sponsorships for the 11th Judicial Circuit and emailed us an outline of the plans. Included in the plans to sell out, are the following.The REGJB will be now called the Fed-Ex Gerstein Justice Buiding.

The Civil Courthouse will be called the Kinkos Civil Court House.

Pepsi will be the official soft drink of the 11th Judicial Circuit. Pepsi will issue commemorative cans with pictures and biographies of the Judges of the 11th Judicial Circuit.

Visa will be the official Credit Card of the 11th Judicial Circuit and will be the only credit card accepted for payment of court costs and filing fees.

Individual Judges will be able to sell corporate patches -3 per robe- similar to corporate logos on NASCAR. The fees for each logo have been set by the Court, but any Judge able to sell space on their robe will be able to keep 50% of all fees, with the other 50% going to the 11th Judicial Circuit general court fund.

The 11th Judicial Circuit will sell ad space on the front of each bench. There is discussion of installing electronic ad signs.

Each courtroom can have one official sponsor. Circuit Courtrooms cost $50,000.00 per year, County Court Courtrooms will cost $25,000.00 per year. Lawyers and law firms will be able to purchase sponsorships of the Courtrooms and all notices for all hearings must contain the corporate sponsor in the notice, eg., “The following motion will be heard in courtroom 4-2, the Greenberg Traurig Courtroom, on….”

Judges and their staff will be permitted to produce and sell approved 11th Circuit memorabilia, including coffee mugs, t-shirts and Golf Caps. The proceeds will be split with the 11th Circuit 50/50.

The Clerks will be sponsored by Mircrosoft. They will call the "Microsoft Outlook Calendar" and will wear shirts with Microsoft patches.

Dell will be the official computer of the 11th Judicial Circuit.

The Paul and Young Ron Show will be the Official Morning Radio Show of the 11th Judicial Circuit. They narrowly outbid the Neil Rogers show.

Local business will be permitted to produce and sell 30 second ads to jurors selected in cases. At three selected time periods during any trial, the trial will be halted and the bailiff will play the ads on flat screen LCD TV’s that are being installed in all courtrooms. Fed Ex, Publix, Walgreens, have already agreed to purchase 100 hours of ad time.

Outside of sponsoring courtrooms, lawyers and law firms will not be permitted to advertise in the courthouse.

Assistant Public Defenders and Assistant State Attorneys will be permitted to have two items reflecting corporate sponsorship, one item being a cap, and one item being a small placard that will be placed on the table and displayed to the jury. Publix has purchased the rights to all DUI Prosecutions, and local driving schools are purchasing rights to the defense in all reckless driving cases.

The Chief Judge will shortly issue an email to all Judges and 11th Judicial Circuit Staff that will say in part:

“Corporate Sponsorship is the wave of the future. Miami has always been at the forefront in new developments in courts and the law, and I believe that we can generate significant revenue that will enhance our legal system, while still protecting the dignity and independence of the court system and the people who work in it.”

In A.D. 2007In Broward County, war was beginning.PD Finkelstein: What happen ?Pit APD #1: Somebody set up us the bomb.Pit APD #2: We get signal.PD Finkelstein: What !Pit APD #2: Main screen turn on.PD Finkelstein: It's you !!Chief Judge Ross: How are you gentlemen !!Chief Judge Ross: All your base are belong to us.Chief Judge Ross: You are on the way to destruction.PD Finkelstein: What you say !!Chief Judge Ross: You have no chance to survive make your time.Chief Judge Ross: Ha ha ha ha ....Pit APD #2: Boss !!PD Finkelstein: Take off every 'Zig' !!PD Finkelstein: You know what you doing.PD Finkelstein: Move 'Zig'.PD Finkelstein: For great justice.

I have another idea...why not have private sponsorship for police departments? Say...have a group put up the money for some new piece of equipment and get the right to put decals on the item. For example if the organization Profesional urban taser zealots (PUTZ)wanted to underwrite the City of Miami taser program with the motto "You Quell...We Kfell".

Rumpole someone wrote the following on the previous post that caught my attention more than other post:

"What bothers me (and I am no fan of former Judge Ivan Hernandez) is that Judge Hernandez's Judicial Assistant makes anti-semetic comments and Judge Hernandez is tortured for it and lost his seat. When Judge Jeri B. Cohen makes anti-cuban comments she is praised and gets re-elected in 2002.

I am concerned that a Judges JA is held to a higher standard than a Judge."

Rumpole some else commented that Cohen won her seat in 2002 before the scandal surfaced I seem to recall differently?

This topic also bothers me that a JA would be held to higher standard that a sitting Judge. Why no outrage. Why is ORJ, DBR or Susanna not ganging up on Cohen like they did on Juan?

Seems like a double standard. For the record I threw a huge party when Ivan Hernandez was defeated. I am no fan of D'Arce either.

Are you bottom feeders and borderline sociopaths still whining about the sound thrashing that the traffic ticket lawyer with the magenta hair and 4th tier law school education(St.Thomas)received at the polls last year?

Are you also whining about the scum that was removed from the south dade courthouse after Juan and his puppets were tossed onto the open job market because the voters decided to deodorize the public facilities occupied by Ivan Hernandez and his no morals and no talent, squatters?(English what a Language!)

Alvarez and supporters get a grip and if you are ready for the next round go out and get your credit lines in order and remember borrow only what you can reasonably expect to pay back on the profit margins from 69$ ticket legal services!

Hernandez supporters hold a meeting in the back of the beauty parlor and lets get ready to Rrruuummmmble!

Hernandez gut crushed by a PD with no political experience. Unfortunately Hernandez needs to find a sitting judge who got picked up for solicitation in order to win a seat. He was a weak judge with no backbone and poor work ethic.

6:32 AM very cute but still does not answer the true question posed by a humble Rumpole blogger.

"What bothers me (and I am no fan of former Judge Ivan Hernandez) is that Judge Hernandez's Judicial Assistant makes anti-semetic comments and Judge Hernandez is tortured for it and lost his seat. When Judge Jeri B. Cohen makes anti-cuban comments she is praised and gets re-elected in 2002.

I am concerned that a Judges JA is held to a higher standard than a Judge."

In the words of Bill O'Reilly on the unfair and unbalanced FIXED (not fox) TV Network "WHAT SAY YOU" Bloggers.